Election Guide 2002 - Sweden.se

5. Equal development opportunities everywhere in the
country
The Centre Party wants to improve people’s
opportunities of living and working everywhere in the
country, partly by means of efficient communications,
such as roads, railways, air transport and digital
communications. Fair conditions for the whole country
must also include access to higher education and
research in partnership with local business undertakings.
People are obviously entitled to live where they please,
but the countryside must be able to offer conditions
which make it an attractive place to live in. For this
reason, initiatives to develop cultural amenities for all
ages, as well as the availability of schools and other basic
amenities, are essential in order to halt the depopulation
of large parts of Sweden.
The Centre Party position
on other important election issues
1. The Centre Party is in favour of free choice and
private alternatives in the public sector, while
safeguarding funding solidarity. Private employers
are often better for the personnel than public ones,
and can both benefit the equality of women and
men and help to reduce the high level of ill-health
in the public sector. Greater diversity of employers
in the caring sector will make this job market more
like others, for example as regards career prospects,
start-up opportunities and pay development.
2. The Centre Party wishes to increase parental power
over the everyday life of the family by augmenting
the diversity of child care and strengthen family
finances so as to make it easier to combine
parenthood with economic activity.
3. National government finances. The Centre Party
strongly opposes a renewal of state borrowing. The
budgetary deficit must be reduced, which also
means that tax reductions are to be financed
independently of dynamic effects.
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